Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
by joe_the_user on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @10:27PM
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Woo Hoo,
Parent is the best explanation so far why brain dead machines won't win.
I remember a Bus-to-RV conversions Web BBS ten years where one poster wrote a DOS program to calculate the optimal Bus conversion layout.
This is why all attempts to make a simplified limited computer over the years have failed. Ordinary people need the full flexibility of a computer. Make it simple to use, but not limited.
Yes...
Yes, they failed, from Al Gore's "Information Super Highway" to the original AOL on down. Thank God. Richard Stallman's Right Read based it's description very directly on the publish specs of the Information Super Highway. But Stallman didn't sink it. The demands of ordinary people, which only an open net could satisfy, were what defeated it.
Parent is the best explanation so far why brain dead machines won't win.
I remember a Bus-to-RV conversions Web BBS ten years where one poster wrote a DOS program to calculate the optimal Bus conversion layout.
This is why all attempts to make a simplified limited computer over the years have failed. Ordinary people need the full flexibility of a computer. Make it simple to use, but not limited.
Yes...
Yes, they failed, from Al Gore's "Information Super Highway" to the original AOL on down. Thank God. Richard Stallman's Right Read based it's description very directly on the publish specs of the Information Super Highway. But Stallman didn't sink it. The demands of ordinary people, which only an open net could satisfy, were what defeated it.